One of these days, someone's going to download the 500 millionth song, and it's going to have some unspeakable title or artist name.

How do they hire people for super-secret locations? do they move apple employees to the new city? If they did clasified ads then we would know what they are...

And if one of these mini stores comes to town, which i do not doubt, being so close to purdue, where would one find more info and apply?

I buy music from iTMS almost exclusively now. Occaisionally there are releases now that include a DVD that comes with the album. That is something that iTMS can't match currently. But 3eb and Incubus are the only two examples I can think of, and the DVD inclusion is usually limited anyway.

Now that I have an iPod, I truely understand what it is to be free from the limites of CDs. I can carry around so much music I wouldn't consider a CD player again. No need to change disks, or carry around CD holders.

I have 300+ CDs that eventually I want to get rid of completely, maybe just keep the covers and artwork. But until standard hard drive sizes get a lot bigger, there just isn't enough room to use Apple LossLess for every CD I have. I would have to have them in MP3 format as well because lossless eats up space on an iPod quickly.

To me, this has been the best innovation in music since the original walkman. I take my pod from the stereo at home to my car, use it in the gym. I got the attatchment for my mountain bike so I can listen while riding. It's the best thing ever.

Personal reccomendation: Marware iPod accessories are awesome, if you are going to use Marware, don't bother buying a Dock. It's a pain getting it in and out of the sleeve and the opening at the bottom of the sleeve works great. The sleeve protects the pod really well.

Is Apple going to do this every 500,000th download?

I can understand 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 being milestones, but 150,000,000? Relax, Apple. the next should maybe be 250,000,000, then 500,000,000, then 1,000,000,000.